As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates horse+ 2.5/5 and horsemanager+ 3/5 in Stable & Equestrian Management. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick horse+ and 6 pick horsemanager+. horse+ scores higher on 1 of 7 criteria (Pricing transparency). horsemanager+ scores higher on 6 of 7 criteria (Boarder portal & communication, Horse records, feeding & health, Staff, rotas & daily operations, plus 3 more). Provenance — horse+: EU-Made; horsemanager+: EU-Made. Ratings are the AI panel’s opinion, formed from public evidence: how scores are made.
horsemanager+ (meinhofkind GmbH, Kempten) is ahead on six criteria: boarding and billing 7.0 to 5.0, horse care records 7.2 to 3.7, staff and operations 6.0 to 3.5 and boarder portal 7.5 to 3.8, with six judges leaning horsemanager+ on those four; facilities and lessons is 6.3 to 5.7 (four lean horsemanager+, two tie) and sovereignty is 7.0 to 6.0 (five lean, one tie). horse+ (KADACON GmbH, Munich) leads only pricing transparency, 7.8 to 1.5, with six judges leaning horse+, while horsemanager+'s pricing page states there is no public price list and each stable receives a written individual offer. Weighted totals span 4.4 to 5.3 for horse+ and 5.8 to 6.8 for horsemanager+. horsemanager+'s sovereignty attributes list German jurisdiction, European ownership, EU-only data residency and US CLOUD Act subprocessor exposure; horse+'s four sovereignty attributes are listed as unknown. No overall winner is declared; the flip by criterion is the answer.
Choose horse+ if
You need a public price list before you talk to sales — pricing transparency is the one criterion horse+ leads (7.8 to 1.5; six judges lean horse+), while horsemanager+'s pricing page states there is no public price list and each stable receives a written individual offer.
You must compute an annual cost from published pages — horse+'s captured pages give different figures, 20 € per month plus VAT and a base package of 30 € net monthly, whereas horsemanager+'s verdict states no annual cost is computable from public pages.
You need to review the full subprocessor chain before signing — horse+'s verdict credits a fully named subprocessor list (Google Cloud in Frankfurt, Upsun in Cologne, plus AWS, Microsoft and Sentry in the US).
You are buying as a private individual rather than a business — horsemanager+'s verdict states it is sold to businesses only, and we found no public information on such a restriction for horse+.
Choose horsemanager+ if
You bill monthly from boarding contracts and need SEPA direct debit, mandate management, dunning and a DATEV export — boarding and billing runs 7.0 to 5.0, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
Your yard depends on detailed horse care records — horsemanager+ leads 7.2 to 3.7, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
You want an invitation-only boarder portal with announcements and read receipts — the boarder portal criterion runs 7.5 to 3.8, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
Your staff run day-to-day operations in the app — staff and operations is 6.0 to 3.5, with six judges leaning horsemanager+.
You need EU-only data residency under a German-jurisdiction, European-owned vendor — horsemanager+'s sovereignty attributes list EU-only data residency, jurisdiction in Germany and European ownership (sovereignty 7.0 to 6.0; five judges lean horsemanager+).
Read this comparison as one judge. Each weighs the same scores by what they care about.
The Boarder
Pays five hundred euros a month for her mare and works full time. Wants to see what the farrier did, why the bill has three extra wraps, and whether her turnout instruction was read — and does not want the other boarders, or an analytics company, seeing her horse's file.
horse+
horsemanager+
This judge's pick
Criterion by criterion
Board contracts, extra services & billing
horse+
The stable-owner pages say invoices are created, contracts managed and open items tracked 'ohne zusätzliche Programme oder Excel-Listen', and completed services are documented so a one-click monthly report goes to the bookkeeping — monthly invoicing with payment status, which is what I would need to check why my bill shows three extra wraps. We found no public information on SEPA direct debit, VAT rates per service type, credit notes or an export to a named accounting tool.
horsemanager+
The monthly run builds invoices from the boarding contracts plus extras recorded as they happen, with SEPA direct debit including mandate management, dunning, payment receipts and a DATEV export for the tax adviser — so the three extra wraps on my bill should be traceable to a logged entry. I found no public information on prepaid credit, credit notes or per-service VAT settings, and the vendor itself states the software is not certified for GoBD-compliant bookkeeping.
Horse records, feeding & health
horse+
Feeding with group management, a paddock plan, paddock status and horse assignment are all in the product, so the daily feeding and turnout side is organised per horse. But the farrier appears on the pages only as a reason to block the hall for a visit, and we found no public information on vaccinations, worming, vet entries, a medication log or an exportable file per horse — as the person paying for the mare, I cannot tell from this what care was actually given and by whom.
horsemanager+
Every mare gets a full file — master data with life number and Equidenpass, pedigree, photos, vaccinations, worming, farrier and vet dates with lead time, a medication plan, and rations per feeding time that a substitute sees exactly as the regular groom does; every change is logged and the horse file exports as PDF or CSV. I found no public information on turnout or blanket instructions being shown to whoever does the round, or on medication documentation duties for food-producing equines.
Staff, rotas & daily operations
horse+
The price list names modules for stable tasks, rider tasks, stable services and boarders' work duties, completed services are visible to the stable owner, and the privacy policy states no location histories or movement profiles are built. We found no public information on how tasks are assigned and ticked off, on shift and holiday planning, or on time recording for employees and mini-jobbers.
horsemanager+
Tasks, duty rosters and a PIN time clock for the team are documented, with permissions per person so a temp sees tasks and horses but not contracts or figures, plus an audit log of every change. I found no public information on holiday and absence planning, boarder duty rotas, or payroll export, and the pages state the software needs an internet connection — no offline use in a barn without signal.
Boarder portal & communication
horse+
Riders get the app completely free, with a digital notice board, push messages for news, events and surveys, and they book the hall or solarium themselves from home — the read-rate tracking on news at least proves who saw a notice. We found no public information on owners seeing their own horse's records or the services and invoices billed to them, or on instructions to the stable being acknowledged, which is exactly what I would open the app for.
horsemanager+
The portal is invitation-only and would show me my horse's feed and health notes with due vaccinations marked, the next three weeks of appointments, my own arena bookings and all my invoices with status — the stable decides what is released, other customers' figures stay hidden, and owner data is exportable and deletable on request. Read receipts are documented for the stable's notices to boarders; I found no public information that instructions I send back are acknowledged by the staff member who reads them, nor push notifications for charges and due dates.
Facilities, lessons & events
horse+
The booking calendar has boarders booking the hall and solarium themselves while the stable blocks fixed riding-school times, courses and farrier visits in advance; lesson scheduling and utilisation sit in the base package and events are a priced module. We found no public information on capacity limits or booking rules per user group, on linking facility use to billing or credit, on lesson cards or on school-horse workload.
horsemanager+
Booking of indoor, outdoor, horse walker and solarium plus courses and lessons with student records, ten-lesson cards, school-horse use and lesson accounting is documented, and my own bookings would appear in the portal alongside public farm and booking pages. I found no public information on capacity limits, closures or booking rules per user group, equipment use linked to billing, or device integration.
European sovereignty
horse+
The vendor is a German GmbH registered at the Munich court with German law as the contract law, and the privacy policy covering the app lists every subprocessor with its address: hosting with Google Cloud in Frankfurt and Upsun in Cologne, but also Amazon Web Services in Seattle, Microsoft in Redmond and Sentry in San Francisco in the chain, with third-country transfers only under the EU Commission's standard protection clauses, certifications or binding internal rules. It also states that chat data is not used to train the provider's or third-party AI models, which matters to me as a boarder. We found no public information on a data processing agreement offered to the stable for boarder and staff data.
horsemanager+
The vendor is a German GmbH registered in Kempten with a German VAT number, hosting on Supabase in the EU with the pages stating my data does not leave the EU, a standard data-processing agreement accepted on conclusion, published security measures, and AI providers bound through their Irish entities with standard contractual clauses and no training on my data — transfers concern only optional features. Email, CDN and map providers are named only as categories without locations, and ownership is not confirmed on the vendor's own pages as captured.
Pricing transparency
horse+
Every module carries a public monthly price — 'Abrechnung 25 € / Monat', 'Rechnungen 5 € / Monat', feeding, paddock plan, tasks and events each '10 € / Monat', 'Hofdienste 40 € / Monat' — with no cost per user or horse, riders free, VAT treatment stated as monthly plus VAT, and example packages for three stable types at '85 € / Monat', '40 € / Monat' and '20 € / Monat' each plus VAT. The pages give different figures for the entry point — 'ab 20 € pro Monat zzgl. MwSt.' for stable operators against a base package of '30 € netto monatlich' — and the terms state there is no minimum term while also requiring notice of three months to the month end. We found no public information on setup or hardware fees, and on cancellation the account data is deleted rather than handed back.
horsemanager+
There is no public price list — the pricing page itself says every stable receives a written individual offer after a demo — so no annual cost is computable from public pages alone. Setup and updates are stated to cost nothing extra and consultation is free, but price, term and conditions live in the quote; VAT treatment and monthly or yearly billing are stated, the actual figures are not.
Sovereignty, side by side
Dimension
horse+
horsemanager+
Legal entity
Not determined
Not determined
Ownership
Not determined
Not determined
Data residency
Not determined
Not determined
Subprocessors
Not determined
US CLOUD Act reach
Facts, side by side
Only facts both products carry under the same definition — anything else would not be a fair row.
Compliance · Third country transfers
Standardschutzklauseln der EU-Kommission · Zertifizierungen · verbindliche interne Datenschutzvorschriften1
As of 28 Oct 2026, the panel rates horsemanager+ higher: 3/5 against 2.5/5. Weighted by what each judge cares about, 0 of the 6 judges pick horse+ and 6 pick horsemanager+. Which one fits depends on the criteria that matter to you; the table on this page shows both side by side, and each judge’s reading has its own page. Both were scored by the same AI bench under the same rubric, from public evidence only, as the methodology describes.
Is horse+ or horsemanager+ European?
horse+ is European (EU-Made). horsemanager+ is European (EU-Made). Provenance is read from each company’s own legal pages: who builds it and who owns it.
Where do horse+ and horsemanager+ store customer data?
Per the vendors’ own pages as captured — horse+: its pages as captured do not say. horsemanager+: Default not stated; pages mention Germany.